– Lolo Jones (USA), two-time World indoor 60m Hurdles champion, who won five Samsung Diamond League races in 2010, including in Doha –
On comparing her success indoors (she won her second World indoor title in Doha in March 2010) to outdoors:
“I’m
definitely happy with my indoor success, but a lot of people try to peg
me as an indoor runner. I like them both equally. I feel like I am a
successful outdoor hurdler. But outdoors I want more success that is
viable to other people. Because I know that I’m a successful outdoor
hurdler. Other people, because they saw the Olympic failure, they try to
peg me as not. I’d like to prove to them that I am when I go to Daegu
and come back with a medal, and then obviously again at the Olympics.”
On her sciatica nerve injury which cut short her 2011 indoor season:
“I’m
a little concerned with my injury. Normally I get a solid base of seven
to eight races indoors in Europe. But this year that just didn’t
happen. My sciatica nerve was inflamed. After two races I had to go back
to the US and saw numerous doctors. So I don’t have that base or that
confidence of just running.”
“At the Drake Relays this year
(where she finished second), I just felt race rusty. The sharpness I
would normally have coming off of a strong indoors was just not there.”
“I
love racing. I’m just looking forward to racing. I’ve got a string of
them lined up. I’m not a Tyson Gay or Usain Bolt who’s going to race
four races a year. I’d like to run four races in a week!”
More detail about her injury:
“It’s
better than it was indoors. Indoors it got to the point where I
couldn’t even jog or run. I still feel pain. I don’t think it’s going to
completely heal until the end of the season. But I can hurdle with it
now.”
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